Thought processes

Welcome back, lets get into it,
4 Officers Slain. Im sure that anyone in canada who watches any news has probably heard at least a bit about it. and if you live in edmonton and havnt heard about it, well thats just sad. well anyway 4 mounties were guarding a Quonset^TM at a farm that they had a warrent for or something. but anyway, somehow the guy who owned the farm snuck into the Quonset^TM (yes while it was being guarded) and for some reason (i havnt really be following the story a lot) the 4 officers went into the Quonset^TM and were gunned down by the suspect (but i guess he is more than a suspect now isnt he). after the man came out of the Quonset^TM and exchanged gun fire with the cops outside, then went back in. later the cops stormed the Quonset^TM and found the 4 officers and the man dead. this all happened last thursday (yes im a little slow). also sympathies go out to all the people affected by this tragedy from the staff (thats me and prob jon) here at LNR.
he got away? Due to this tragedy, the great marketing gimmick, "96x $20,000 fugative" was cancelled. in addition, they are donating the $20,000 prize was given to the families of the victims. Its sorta nice that the fugative things are off the radio, but im sure they will be back soon, yay!
whizz and zoom Another great way of marketing/advertising? zoom media. who? they are the people who put ads in the bathroom. too much you thing? well i disagree, mostly. I enjoy them. they give you something to read while you are doing your business. but there are some rules that should be followed.
Ian's rules of bathroom advertising
1)Ads in front of urinals must be places a minimum of a foot past the back of the toilet. (this makes them easier to read without leaning back or looking around.
2)Ads should contain lots of reading material. (there are some that are just art or like a car and 4 words. when it comes to adds in the bathroom people are guarenteed to spend at least a short time in there, you can put more text than a usual add (on a highway for example). also often people will come back into the same bathroom day after day because it is convenient, so they can finish the reading when they come back. this leads us into rule 3)
3)Ads must be changed often (a month is too long, no one wants to stare at the same picture of a sunfire 6 inches in front of your face for a month)
a good example of a ad that followed rule 2, but not so much rule 1 was one i saw today. it was a government of canada one about joining the army reserve. It was good becuase had alot of reading, but one definite flaw was the location. it was off to the right. and one place you dont want to be looking while using the urinal is off to the side.
nerds protecting us? On the soldier on the ad mentioned above was a camouflage suit thing. this got me to thinking, everyone knows what the old fashioned camo looks like, it is often fashional and/or cool now. but the new camo is like pixelated camo. computer genorated camo. the colours like morph into each other in a bizzare binary way. it must be much more camo'd in the battlefield or something.
the final links Tom Hanks wore army fatigues in Saving Private Ryan, and Tom Hanks was in Apollo 13 with      Kevin Bacon, thank you

Ian